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Margaret Kenny McNally, a Northbrook mother who raised a remarkably prominent family of 10 children, died March 11 as a result of complications from congestive heart failure and old age. She was 85. McNally is survived by her husband of 61 years, Dr. Randall E. McNally, a former Air Force doctor who was for decades a leading Chicago plastic surgeon and was the longtime "cut man" who stitched injured players for the Chicago Blackhawks. For years Margaret Kenny McNally managed her husband's medical practice, while raising their children and serving as a leader of the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and of a Rush Hospital charitable group. But her...

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Margaret Kenny McNally, a Northbrook mother who raised a remarkably prominent family of 10 children, died March 11 as a result of complications from congestive heart failure and old age.
She was 85.
McNally is survived by her husband of 61 years, Dr....

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